Edinburgh Monarchs host their Season Launch Show on Friday, April 5 at a new venue.

Ricky Wells, Justin Sedgmen, Josh Pickering, Joel Andersson, William Lawson, Cameron Heeps and Luke Ruddick will share their thoughts at the Lindsay Stewart Theatre, commonly known as The Egg, at Edinburgh Napier University at Craiglockhart.

Tickets are £8 with concessions for Gold and Blue members.

Doors will open at 7pm with the show getting underway from 7:30pm.

Meanwhile, Monarchs’ pre-season tidy up is underway and volunteers will be at Armadale this weekend from 10.00am on Saturday and Sunday.

A spokesman said: “We are keen to enlist the help of a plumber for one of the projects.”

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